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Photograph of sailors on the Staten Island Ferry by amg2000 on Flickr
Thousands of Sailors, Marines and Coast Guardsmen will be descending on New York City as Fleet Week 2008 starts tomorrow. This year's flotilla includes five American warships and three Canadian ships, and there will be opportunities for the public to tour ships and see public demonstrations.
One of the more dramatic displays will be the U.S. Marins' helicopter raid demonstrations. Held in various parks in Queens, Staten Island, the Bronx, Long Island and Westchester County, an AH-1W Cobra, a UH-1N or a CH-46E Sea Knight, respectively, will perform an "area sweep of a landing zone...Once the helicopters have performed the sweep, Marines will slide down ropes from the helicopter and secure the landing zone by positioning themselves on the boundaries of the perimeter and sighting in with their weapons in case of any potential danger."
The ships are coming in at 9:30 a.m. (the Navy says locations include "Hudson River from Verrazano Bridge to George Washington Bridge; Narrators will be at Stapleton Pier, SI & Fort Hamilton") and they will be open for visitors-see here for more details. And the AP notes how the last time there was a full-size aircraft carrier, it was in 2005 because NYC "bars nuclear-powered craft from the harbor"--which means many of the newer Naval carriers are effectively banned.
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NYC "bars nuclear-powered craft from the harbor"--which means many of the newer Naval carriers are effectively banned.
Not "many." All. Only one carrier still on active duty is non-nuclear, the ancient Kitty Hawk, and it's planned to be decommissioned later this year. The JFK, which visited in 2005, was decommissioned and mothballed last year. The only carrier older than the Kitty Hawk still in use is the good old Enterprise, and that'll be gone in four years.
Who came up with this stupid decision to ban nuclear ships anyway? I have no love for war, but this smacks of peaceniks or antinuclear protesters run amok.
agreed.
my friend is set to work on a part of the fleet in VA. no significant threat to the nuke ships based on their design.
and this comes from someone who's very "earth-conscious"
Stink coming off unwashed outer-borough subway riders is more dangerous than nuclear powered warships. Garlic & curry are WMDs on congested mass transit. Especially in NYC heat, among population
averse to water like stray cats.
we're not much of a racist, are we?
@nik13
Huh? What about garlic and curry?
Retard flamers are confusing the hell out of me.
I remember fleet week! We used to come to town and .... opps I better not saY.
Lock away your daughters people!
Nuclear energy is probably our best bet nowadays. Better embrace it. And yeah, why the hell can't we send the waste to space? Never understood that. We send monkeys.
Depleted uranium is heavier than monkeys.
Remember the Challenger space shuttle? The Columbia? Any of the dozens of launch vehicles that had to be self-destructed even in recent years? Yeah, it's a good idea to put try to send up tens of thousands of tons of nuclear waste (including spent, not depleted, uranium) on what are potentially giant powder kegs, so we can all be showered with waste if one blows. Especially plutonium, which is extremely toxic if inhaled. Not to mention the trillions of dollars it would take to build the tens of thousands of launch vehicles needed, each with enough fuel to achieve escape velocity.
anyway those sailors are fucking hotties!